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The East Baltic Subjunctive
A Contribution to the Historical Morphology of Infinitive-Based Verbal Formations
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Simon Fries
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. Setting out with a general discussion of the historical relation between the two East Baltic languages, this book seeks to explain why, when and how the supine developed into the subjunctive. In doing so, it provides the first exhaustive account of the evolution of the morphosyntactic paradigm of the subjunctive and all its attested forms in the East Baltic dialects. It thereby contributes to our understanding of the emergence of morphosyntactic structures and the typology of infinitive-based verbal formations.
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Simon Fries, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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1 Introduction
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2 The Historical Relation between Lithuanian and Latvian
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3 The Historical Development of the Subjunctive
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4 The Origin of the Subjunctive
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5 Conclusion
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Appendix. Verbs with attested subjunctive forms in Vilentas’s works
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Bibliography
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Index of Word-Forms
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Index of Place Names
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eBook published on:
October 6, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111703817
Hardcover published on:
October 6, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783119149204
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Front matter:
22
Main content:
420
Illustrations:
3
Tables:
53
Keywords for this book
Subjunctive; Infinitive-Based Mood; East Baltic; Paradigm Formation; Historical Morphology
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Researchers
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